AI Video
Can Artist Royalties Win Creators Over to AI Video?
A new startup built on ByteDance's Seedance model is paying artists royalties for their work, testing whether compensation can overcome creator resistance to generative AI video.
AI Video
Synthetic Media
Snapchat Cuts Payouts for Fully AI-Made Spotlight Videos
Snapchat has updated its Spotlight monetization rules to stop rewarding fully AI-generated content, joining a growing wave of platforms recalibrating how synthetic media is treated and paid for.
AI Video
MiniMax and ByteDance Roll Out Upgraded AI Video Models
Chinese AI leaders MiniMax and ByteDance have both unveiled upgraded AI video generation models, intensifying competition in the fast-moving text-to-video and image-to-video landscape.
Synthesia
Synthesia Expands AI Avatars Into Live Coaching
Synthesia, the AI avatar video platform, is moving beyond pre-rendered training videos into interactive live coaching powered by conversational AI avatars, marking a major shift for synthetic media in enterprise learning.
AI Video
Blomkamp's AI Zombie Film Leans on ByteDance Seedance
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's new AI-generated short 'Nightborne' relies on ByteDance's Seedance video model, reigniting debate over whether generative AI filmmaking is art or slop.
AI Video
Reelful AI Turns Your Camera Roll Into Short Videos
Reelful launches an AI tool that automatically transforms photos and clips from your camera roll into polished short-form videos for social media, tapping into the booming market for automated content creation.
Character.ai
Character.ai Jumps Into AI-Powered Microdrama Wars
Character.ai is entering the booming microdrama market with its own productions, but with an AI-native twist that leans on its chatbot roots to blend interactive characters with short-form serialized video content.
Character.ai
Character.AI Enters AI Microdrama Video Race
Character.AI is expanding beyond chatbots into AI-generated microdramas, betting on short-form vertical video as the next frontier for synthetic entertainment and interactive character-driven storytelling.
world models
World Models: The Next Leap Beyond LLMs for AI Video
World models learn internal simulations of reality, enabling AI to predict and generate coherent video and interactive environments. Here's why this paradigm may reshape synthetic media beyond the limits of today's LLMs.
AI Video
Best Open-Source AI Video Models for 8GB-24GB GPUs
A practical breakdown of the open-source AI video generation models you can actually run at home, mapped to real VRAM budgets from 8GB entry-level cards to 24GB enthusiast rigs.
Deepfakes
AI-Generated Videos Sway Voters as Well as Real Clips
A new study finds AI-generated political videos persuade voters just as effectively as authentic footage, raising fresh concerns about synthetic media in elections and the urgent need for detection and authentication systems.
world models
World Model Lab Odyssey Hits $1.45 Billion Valuation
Odyssey, a world model AI lab building interactive, generative video environments, has reached a $1.45 billion valuation as investors bet big on the technology underpinning the next wave of synthetic media.